Hera

Hera (/ˈhɛrə, ˈhɪərə/; Greek: Ἥρᾱ, Hērā; Ἥρη, Hērē in Ionic and Homeric Greek) is the goddess of women, marriage, family and childbirth in the complex Atlantian religion and mythology, one of the Twelve Pillars and the sister and wife of Plato. She is also the half-sister and consort of Kenji Futakuchi. She is the daughter of the Primordial deities Corona and Mercury. Hera rules over Mount Escanor as queen of the gods. A figure of female power in the Atlantian religion and subsequent mythology, Hera serves as both the patroness and protectress of married women, presiding over weddings and blessing marital unions. One of Hera's defining characteristics is her seriousness, apathy, and coldness towards the humans who break the laws of the gods. She is quite apathetic towards her brother and consort Plato, which leads him to take on numerous lovers and father several illegitimate offspring, as a way to gain a sense of affection; which he doesn't receive in his marriage with Hera. She consequently devotes all of her love towards her other consort Kenji and is devoted to her full-blooded children with both Plato and Kenji. The illegitimate offspring of her husband are treated well by Hera with the lovers of Plato, being present in the court of Hera who employs them as some of her most powerful personal advisers in matters of the government and state. As the highest-ranked goddess and deity of her entire family; she is the true ruler of the gods and holds authority even over Plato (stated to be the King of the Gods).

Hera is commonly seen with the animals she considers sacred, including the cow, lion, peacock and the majestic dragon. Portrayed as majestic and solemn, often enthroned, and crowned with the polos (a high cylindrical crown worn by several of the Great Goddesses), Hera is often depicted holding a pomegranate in her hand, symbol of fertile blood and death in the mythology of Atlantis and a bouquet that contains a combination of death lilies, poison poppies and the deadly, highly toxic, green snap-dragon flowers.

Her Avalonian counterpart is Belladonna.

Etymology
The name of Hera has several possible and mutually exclusive etymologies; one possibility is to connect it with the Greek word ὥρα hōra, meaning "season", and to interpret it as ripe for marriage and according to Plato ἐρατή eratē, "beloved" as she is said to have married both Plato and Kenji Futakuchi for love. According to Plutarch, Hera was an allegorical name and an anagram of aēr (ἀήρ, "air"). Hērōs, ἥρως, 'hero' is another possible translation of her name into English, but that is no help since it too is etymologically obscure. "Young cow, heifer", is another possible translation offered which is consistent with Hera's common epithet βοῶπις (boōpis, "cow-eyed"). Her name is attested in Mycenaean Greek written in the Linear B syllabic script as e-ra, appearing on tablets found in Pylos and Thebes, as well in the Cypriotic dialect in the dative e-ra-i.

Cult
Hera is recorded as the first deity to whom the Atlantians dedicated an enclosed roofed temple sanctuary, at Aragón (a island that is completely above the water) about the same time as the founding of the Mesopotamian Empire, which would have occurred in 150 BC. It would be replaced later by the Heraion of Aragón one of the largest of all religious temples built by the Atlantian clergy (altars were in front of the temples under the open sky). The Heraion of Aragón was built to replace the original enclosed roofed temple sanctuary, which had been destroyed by Julius Caesar when he invadied in late September of 29 BC. Earlier sanctuaries built in honor of Hera, were of the Mycenaean type called "house sanctuaries". Subsequent excavations have revealed votive offerings, many of them late 29 and early 44 centuries BC, which show that she was both a local Atlantis goddess of the Aragón and a wide-spread goddess all around: the museum there contains figures of gods and suppliants and other votive offerings from Armenia, Babylon, Iran, Assyria, Egypt, Greece and Rome, resulting from the fearsome reputation that Hera had been gifted at birth. Compared to this mighty goddess, who also possessed the earliest temple at Aragón and two of the great fifth and sixth century temples of Aragón and the Vatican City, the simple stories of her commentaries and the various myths told about her is an "almost... surreal thing; nothing about her might, her power, her strength. None of that is told" recounts one of her great-granddaughters Luka.

Importance
According to the eldest of her great-granddaughters Luka; "she is to date the most important goddess of the Twelve Pillar Deities. Nobody is more important to her, for she alone, is the Divine Protecteress of Humanity." She have many characteristic attributes of worship dating back [possibly] to the beginning of Humanity itself. As the deity and sole Divine Protecteress of Humanity, she is responsible for watching over [and] guarding Humanity as part of her duties; in the same line of thinking, she also punishes specific humans or a nation at whole for actions that indicate or promote hubris such as: proclaiming their superiority over the gods, attempting to murder innocents simply for the sake of murder, among other actions. She is also linked with the greatest Atlantian ruler Emperor Richard VIII and his heir apparent Empress Elizabeth II. According to Luka's account of her great-grandmother's birth, Lady Eileithyia (one of her parents' maids and the goddess of childbirth at the time), helped her mother Mercury give birth to her. Unfortunately the birth ended with her mother's death. Iris and Leto, two of her paternal half-aunts blamed Hera for the death of their half-sister; which ended with the three goddesses embroiled in personal conflict with each other.

In one version of her tense relationships with Iris and Leto, as is described in the Leviathan, Hera declares, "Half-aunts besotted of my most beloved mother Mercury, I beseech thee to end your feuds with me. I am whom was merely a babe at the time of my mother's death, what quarrel is to be had with both of thee? For no such crime as adultery or the killing of an innocent was committed. Childbirth is a difficult affair; some people die when giving birth, that is simply the way it works. Nothing more and nothing less." She further adds, "That fact that you blame me for the death of my mother means nothing to me; she is both the person that gave birth to me and a figure that could have become important in my life."

Matriarchy
There has been considerable scholarship, dating back to the famed Japanese ennobled scholar family, the House of Futakuchi in the early 4th millennium, her importance in Atlantian history is firmerly established and proven to be taken from the previous religion and people who inhabited both the Empire of Atlantis and the Empire of Olympus before the Atlantians ravaged their cities. They were known as the Canaanites who had repudiated their previous religion and left their homes in the geographic region of Levant in the land of Canaan. Mostly able-bodied women survived the journey and what men had survived the journey to their new homeland were in fragile health, thus they decided to start a matriarchal religion. She was given the status of the All-Mother; the supreme ruler and queen of the gods, not by marriage to her husband but in her own right as part of her inheritance.

Origin and birth
Hera is the eldest child and first-born daughter of the Cosmic deity Corona and her wife, and sister, Mercury. Corona had seen visions of the future in which her and her wife`s eldest child (Hera) would become Queen of the Gods and the All-Mother of a matriarchal religion, in which she would be the supreme head of the religion and of her fellow deities. Mercury also experienced visions of Hera's future and called Iris and Leto "disgusting" and "emotionally damaging". Unlike the Greek Hera, this Hera grew up in complete seclusion from the other deities that weren't her father or her younger siblings that roamed the lands of the two Empires and the entire world, and was a avid learner and horsewoman.

Youth
During her early years of life; Hera was raised in complete seclusion in the gilded palace of